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Check out our RSI data transparency tracker!
Current scores: OAI (2/8), Ant (1.5/8), GDM (0.5/8)
Hoping the labs will hill-climb this as fast as they have every other benchmark :)
This is based on our recent econ of RSI paper @ElasticityInst 1/2
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Our big take on Cuba this week economist.com/the-americas/2…
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At last, Haiti has some hope.
Aggressive policing is weakening gangsters' control.
THE KIDNAPPING was to take place in the busy middle-class neighbourhood of Delmas in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
#haiti
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Listen here for more on what Venezuelan's think about Maduro's capture, Delcy Rodriguez and the future of the country in this @TheEconomist podcast, drawing on our polling with @premisedata (no paywall)
economist.com/podcasts/2026/…
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According to a new poll by @TheEconomist, Venezuelans do not support Delcy and want quick election: a majority wants them in 6 months. economist.com/graphic-detail…
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What do Venezuelans in the country think of the seizure of Maduro, Trump "running" the country and Delcy Rodriguez? @TheEconomist with @premisedata tried to find out
Optimism, support for the USA and deep desire for democracy shine through. Take a read👇 economist.com/graphic-detail…
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Today, the brutal Murillo–Ortega dictatorship “celebrates” 19 years since what was meant to be a 5-year democratic term. Nicaraguans voted for a president in 2006, not a lifetime of an illegitimate dynasty. Rewriting the constitution and crushing dissent won’t erase Nicaraguans’ aspirations to live free from tyranny.
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The Briefing Room🎙️ | Venezuela – what now?
Senior research fellow @ChrisSabatini (@CH_Americas) joined @DAaronovitch, @TheEconomist's Americas editor @halhod and @VFelbabBrown from @BrookingsInst to discuss the crisis in 🇻🇪.
Listen in full via @BBCRadio4 ⤵️
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Coming up on the Briefing Room at 4 on Radio 4 who is running Venezuela now and is the US intervention all about oil? Join @DAaronovitch @halhod @ChrisSabatini @VFelbabBrown bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q7l…
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“Sure, Cuba is in crisis,” says Yenier Romero, a 42-year-old barber who left the island in 2022, as he snips clients’ hair in Miami’s Little Havana district. “But all they ever taught us was how to survive on nothing.”
economist.com/the-americas/2…
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My column on Venezuela in @TheEconomist
“Prosperity does not come from oil, decrees or even benevolent rulers. It comes from rights. Rights create private property. Rights create security. Rights create debate. Rights allow people to invest, to innovate, to dream—and to transform reality. Take rights away, and society withers. Restore them, and recovery is possible.”
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Thanks to Trump's pressure on Venezuela and Colombia, many leaders may stay away from the Santa Marta summit between the EU and Lat Am. Despite the difficulties it is a relationship worth deepening, as the Mercosur trade deal shows. My analysis:
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The Economist: “This year Pakistan became the world’s second largest importer of solar panels… a laboratory for the green-energy transition in the global south.”
How China sparked a rooftop solar revolution in Pakistan
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In our polling with YouGov, since the start of his second term Donald Trump's net approval has fallen 17pts among white Americans (+17 to -1), 28pts among Hispanic Americans (-9 to -37) and 38pts among black Americans (-36 to -74)
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Aid caravan trying to get to hardest hit areas in jamaica. Still about 30 miles from where Hurricane melissa made landfall. @jpetramala
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This week I wrote about a new museum in CDMX dedicated to Frida Kahlo's family. economist.com/culture/2025/1…
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On Tuesday @MarkJCarney, Canada’s prime minister, will meet Donald Trump at the White House. In an interview in Ottawa last week, I asked him what America’s president was like to deal with. Watch the full interview on Thursday at 7pm London time: econ.st/3KXJVLh